James Ingo Freed, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Ingo Freed

American architect

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1930

Place of Birth: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Dec-2005

Profession: architect, university teacher

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930 – December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic.
After coming to the United States at age nine with his sister Betty, followed later by their parents, he studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a degree in architecture. In the late 1970s, he was a member of the Chicago Seven and dean for three years of the School of Architecture at his alma mater.
He worked for most of his career based in New York, and went beyond the Internationalist and modernist styles.
In partnership with I.M.
Pei, in their firm known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, he worked on major United States public buildings and museums.